Monday, July 03, 2017

Is the Task Ahead Too Big for You?

Are you looking ahead and something and saying to yourself, “It’s too big! Too Much! Too Hard! I can’t do it!”

I have been there, more than once, and so have you.

It could be a relationship. Relationships are the hardest thing that we have to deal with in our lives. I have a friend who says, “Work would be awesome if there were no people.” People complicate things. Maybe you are thinking about a person right now and thinking, fixing that relationship is a mountain too big to climb. I can’t do it. I don’t want to do it. I won’t do it. Your choice, but what if God wants you to?

It could be a project at work. It seems like an impossibility…. something too hard and too much for you. You don’t even know where to start.

Or maybe it is a personal thing… battling an addiction. Maybe you need to lose weight, or stop smoking, or stop drinking… but you just know it’s too much.

I have shared this quote with you many times, but my lifetime mentor, a man by the name of Paul Mills, taught me this more than 30 years ago: If God wants to do something great, He starts with a problem. If He wants to do something spectacular, He starts with an impossibility. What is the task ahead of you? Is it impossible?